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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
THE East.

DURING the month of August 27,265 i'm
migrants were landed at Castle Garden as
against % 266 in August 1866 The total
immigration this year up to the 1st is 267,-
764, being an increase of 6,997 over the
same period of last year.
IT was asserted on the LIST by dis
charged keeper named Butter that of the
1,750 inmates of the Wards Island, New
York; lunatic asylum 900 were perfectly
sane, and that most of the others were
harmless lunatics.
A COMPANY which was formed on the
1st have purchased AN invention patented
by John f. Kerns for utilizing the water
power of Niagara Falls, and will begin
operations soon.
THE authorities at Lewiston, Me-, seized
the Canadian steamer Hastings on the 1st
for carrying passengers between that
port and Olcott, both being American
ports.
THOMAS JOYCE, a vegetable peddler at
Pittsburgh, fatally shot his wife and
daughter on the 1st. He was half drunk,
and said he intended to kill them and him.
self.
PpoF. JOHN AVERY, of Bowdoin College,
recognized authority in ancient Ian
guages, expired at North Bridgeton, Me-,
on the 1st.
BISHOP WILLIAM L. HARRIS, of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. expired in New
York on the I'd, of heart-disease, aged
seventy years He leaves widow and
three children. Bishop HArris was born
IN Ohio November 4, 1917 and was
ordained Bishop at Brooklyn, N. Y, in
May, 1872
RUMoRs were afloat on the 81 that the
Baltimore q Ohio railway had been pur-
chased by syndicate. including Barring
Brothers. j. S. Morgan & Co., and Brown,
Shipley Il Co., of London; Drexel Nor
gan & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., and
Brown Brothers, of New York The syn
dictate is to advance $4,000, 900 to pay the
floating debt All the outside enterprises
are to be given up--the Western Union
probably taking the telegraph lines.
c. NJ HovEY, the wellknown horticur-
ist died on the I'd at Cambridge, Mass,
aged seventy-seven years.
THE Richmond Paper Company, of Prov
idence, r. l.. failed on the 81, with liabili.
ties of $50, 0O0
INCLUDING the winnings of the week
ending on the Sd, the standing of the
baseball clubs in the National League is
as follows: Detroit (games won), 81;
Chicago, "a; New York, IS; Philadelphia,
81; Boston, 50; Pittsburgh, Al; Washing.
ton, 80; Indianapolis, 20.
THE sub-treasury at New York redeemed
8, 49,, All trade dollars in the six months al
lowed for their redemption.
THE Republicans of Massachusetts will
hold their State convention at fremont
Temple, Boston, September %.
WHEN driving across the track at Sa-
lem, Mass, Odilon Menard, his wife AMI
baby, were struck and killed on the 9Th by
train.
E, S. WHEELER & Co., heavy importers
of bar iron, Steel tin, etc, of New Haven,
Conn.,, and the New Haven Wire Company
failed on the 5th with liabilities figured at
50 600 OO0
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

Compiled From Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON.

HE pubilcsdebt Statementfor August is
as TO lowss Total debt Gncludlng INTEREST,"
SIZES, OSl, 6l5; less cash items available for
reouct1Qa OF debt, and reserve bills for re.
deHption of United States notes, ti959, 54e,-
54D, S1,3l4, $50, 275; cash in treasury, A4a-
100, 9O8; debt less amount IN treasury,
81, 259 IA, 366. Decrease during August,
81, SO9,475
DURING the month of August the total
coinage executed at the minis was 92S2,-
COO pieces of the value Of S., 803, 800. OF
this amount $4,000 was half-eagles, 81
1900 silver, 1896, 900 dimes, and $78, 800
minor coins. The total gold coinage was
$4,000 and total silver 50, 1866 600.
THROUGHOUT the country the state of
trade was on the 81 reported encouraging.
In the Northwestern States the mum Der Of
sales was said to be greater during the past
seven days than for several months be-
fore.
The business failures In the United
States during the seven days ended on the
I'd numbered rs, against 1873 the previous
seven days.
THE weather crop bulletin of the Signal
Service Office for the week ended on the
90 is as follows. The rain fall was slight.
ly in excess from Eastern Texas north
ward to the Missouri valley, in Florida,
and the upper portion OF the Mississippi
valley, and in the other sections there was
a slight deficiency. The deficiency for the
season continued large in the Lower
Mississippi valley and portions Of Illinois
and Iowa.
THE exchanges at twenty.six leading
clearing houses in the United States DUR
ing the week ended on the Sd aggre-
gated $945, ga, 49, against $795, 218, O90 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1885, the increase
amounts to 228 per cent
THE Land Office has decided to open up
325, 900 acres of railroad lands in Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota to settlement by home :
stead and pre- -emption entry.
In all the great business centers of the
country Labor Day was generally OBJ
served on the 9Th. Parades, picnics ex.
cursions, ETC., were the order of exer-
cises.
THE internal revenue collections
throughout the country for July last were
$10,O97,219 being s36l,4l1 more than the
receipts during the same month of last
year There was decrease of $178, $40 in
the collections On spirits an increase of
1912 ZOO on tobacco. an increase of 1914, 727
on fermented liquors. and decrease of
10, 296 on miscellaneous objects The re-
ceipts from oleomargarine were $251,S1
THE Postoffice Department was notified
on the 9Th of the killing of Joseph Ward,
postmaster at Chapman, COL, by Indians,
on August 25 last.
OVER twenty-five hundred physicians
from all portions of the world were in at
tendance upon the opening session Of the
International Medical Congress at Wash
ington on the 5th.
THE August fire record shows a total
loss in the United States and Canada of
SS,317,500, against $13 900, 900 in August
1885, The average August losses for ten
years has teen about 100000 The total
losses for the first eight months of 1887 are
$S5, 245,6OO against Sc 900 for the COR
responding period of 1885,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
WEST AND sOuTH.

+ A sIxTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy named Richard
Emerson died at Kenosha, Wis, on the
1st of hydrophobia. He was bitten by q
pet dog two months ago.
A LAwLEss mob in Harrison County,
Ind, calling themselves white Caps, y
took John Hildebrant from his bed on the
LIST and beat him numerically because
they disapproved his decisions.
JOSEPH TERRELL paid the extreme PEN
atty of the law at Columbus, O., on the lst
for the murder of an old man named
Phelps.
PETER and Henderson Green, brothers,
while ugly drunk near Lancaster. XIV.
on the ri opened fire without cause on Ell
Cooley. The latter replied with a shot
gun and big revolver, killing the Green
brothers.
INDIANAPOLIS Qnd.) dispatches of the
I'd state that 126 persons lost their lives in
the recent Chatsworth mL) wreck, and
that the actual extent of the calamity was
concealed.
THE Ohio Oil Company was formed at
Lima on the I'd with capital of $500, 600.
They will market their own product, and
cut loose from the Standard Oil Company.
SEVEN persons accused of murder and
awaiting action by the grand jury were
confined IN the Chicago Jail on the Cd. Ten
already indicted murderers were awaiting
trial
GEORGE MOUNT and James Grady, prom
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
BIG MEDICINE MEN.

President Cleveland Opens the Interna-
tionsl Medical Congress at Washington
- WelconiH by secretary Bayard -
Thousands of Physicians from ~ hanss
Present-Dr. N. S., Davis, of Chicago,
Chosen btssident-ffis Address.
WASHINGTON, Sept Eli rt,t.nd numbers
it is estimated that the invading army 0t
doctors now contains about 5000 indiyid-
Gals The Nefk of registration is still in
progress, and the e1asft ffiiahfes are not yet
attainable. OF these nine-tentfs are Amer
leans. Of the three or four hundred for
eignefs present. there are ford, portly En-
glishmen, sssastbs Italians, Turks and Per-
SLAMS, blonde Russians Sot~egians and
Swedes, with Frenchmen, Danes, Geffnaus.
Servians, Mexicans and South Americans in
every type Of eminent responsibility.
At breciselE eleven o'clock the curtain was
raised ana reVesled President Cleveland,
Secretary Bayard, Speaket Eaflisle, DIR.
Davis, Of Chicago, and the officers OF the
congress- seeted on the Stage As soon as
President Cleveland TSsas recognized the
audience applarded and continued - ex
hibit their qualification nntii the President
rose and acknowledged the salutation When
quiet was restored Dr. s,aith, of Philadel-
phia, chairman of the Executive Committee;
IN few well-chosen words stated the pur-
pose OF the gathering and introduced Presi-
dent Cleveland The large audience
again exhibited their qualification by a dGfr
onstration that continued for several
minutes, the delegates rising to their feet
and the ladies in the galleries waving
handkerchiefs. Whom the President adj
vanced to the front of the stage in fill Flew,
of the vast audience the demonstration was
renewed, and after several minutes dura-
ton was concluded with cheer from the
fel6Sates ;. The. enthusiasm having sub
sided, the President looked ever the audi-
forum for moment, and thefi said; ,witfi
great distinctness and with that delibera
ton that marks his public utterances:
81 feel that the country should be con-
graduated to-day upon the presence at our
tdpitat Of SO many of our own citizens and
those represent Ig f5tsign c6untries; who have
distinguished themselves in The scienA6 Of
medicine, and are devoted to its further prog
ress. Ny duty on this occasion is very
pleasing and q very brief one. 1t is simply to
declare that the Ninth International Medical
Congress- is low opGf for organization and for
the transaction OF business
The chairman of the Executive Commit
te9 then proceeded to nominate the gentle
men agreed upon by the committee to be
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Wholesale Naturalizatio,.

CHICAGO, Sept AT the regular meeting
OF St Georges Society last night, delega-
ton from the various lodges of the Sons of
St George asked the parent society to join
in the formation of a British-American
league. The intention is to get all natural
lied citizens of British. Scotch or Cana
dian descent to join in movement for the
naturalization of aliens from the countries
mentioned To this end the cooperation of
all British, Scotch and Canadian clubs will be
enlisted But $500 of the 20, 700 Canadians
OF a voting age in Chicago are naturalized,
and even smaller proportion, perhaps Of
the 10. 600 Englishmen
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Heavy Failure in the Iron. Trade.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. G.-The failure
of E. s. Wheeler &. Co., of this city, heavy
importers of bar iron, steel, tin, etc, with
branch houses in New York, Liverpool, Bal
timore and Chicago and the New Haven
Wire Company, of which E. S. Wheeler is
president, was announced yesterday after
noon. and created decided sensation in
business circles.
A prominent banker who is pretty well
posted as to the firms standing, put the
amount of the failure in.the neighborhood
of $1,000, coo. Othersaare not inclined to
estimate it quite SO heavy, All agree that
it will be very ar-reaching and will involve
houses here and elsewhere
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Shot Dead in a Row.

CHICAGO, Sept 6.-Charles H. Wood, a
member of the Veteran Police Patrol, shot
and almost instantly killed Joe
Zenieschek, a saloon-keeper, last night
on the northwest corner :of Ran
dolph and Dearborn streets. The affair
occurred about 1890 o'clock. Wood was
arrested by Officer John ]. Mahoney i'm
mediately after the shooting and locked up
at the Central station. The men came to
blows over an argument, but had been sep
arated, when Wood drew his revolver and
fred the fatal shot
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
A Fierce Tornado.

TOLEDO o., Sept About six o'clock
last evening a tornado, which originated
near Adrian, Mich, passed about four miles
west of the city. 1t first struck the
tri-S5ate fair grounds, but did no damage
beyond prostrating tents belonging to shows,
etc. 1t then went to the southeast in a track
about 100 yards wide, prostrating trees and
fences. Reaching the new Northwestern
Insane Asylum it badly injured the slate
roofs of the various buildings. The large
central building received the most damage,
the tall brick chimneys being blown down,
and in their fall crushing in about half the
roof Torrents of rain accompanied the tor
nado. The damage at the insane asylum in
estimated at about IS, 0O0
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

, JOHN HURRAH, of New Jersey, has
twice applied to the Legislature to
change his name, but that body has re-
fused. This is manifest injustice. The
man is crippled in business and repu-
aation; he can't have steamboat or
;sleeping-car named after him, for re-
spectacle people will not go anywhere
ON a Hurrah, and even his wife could
be arrested for raising one when she
makes him get up in the morning. Is
there no law for the poor in this coun-
ftvp
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

&C. T. Sweet, of Hartford, has in
vented an apparatus that weary tele-
phoners will hail with satisfaction. 1t
is cleverly-shapcd iron elbow, NOV
ing on a hinge, adjussableto the height
of the speaker. You can rest your ell
bow in the socket. held the telephone
in your hand, and s'Uait a minute for
ten minutes at a tire without firing
you, except as to yoaF patience.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Illinois Supreme Court,

OTTAWA ILL.,, Sept 6.-Five of the seven
Judges of the Illinois Supreme Court close
their terms of service this year They are
Justices Mulkey, of the First district; Scho-
field, of the Second; Scott, of the Third,
Sheldon (Chief-Justice), of the Sixth, and
Magruder, of the Seventh. The full term of
the Judges is nine years. Judge Magruder
was elected in the Chicago district two years
ago to fill the term of Judge Dickey, who
died at that time
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Internal Revenue Collections.

WASHINGTON, Sept 6.-The collections of
internal revenue for July last were $1O,-
097, 1873, being 1861, All more than the re-
ceipts during the same month of last year.
There was a decrease of $17S, $40 in the
collections on spirits, an increase of 1912
700 on tobacco, an increase of $2O4, 727 on
fermented liquors, and decrease of S., 296
on miscellaneous objects The receipts
from oleomargarine were $251, SIS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

! AN exchange gives the following adj
vice to family men with family pistols
who think there are burglars in the
house: Don't shoot. 1t is better that
all the family should report for hash
in the morning than two or three
should be filled with the contents of
your gattling. Don't shoot. Trust to
Bridget and flank movement with
the poker. It's better to be knocked
down yourself when there are no burg
lars than to slaughter your own family
by mistake when there are"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

The net imports of gold during the
last thirteen months We're $40, 600, 900.
With the domestic production during
the same period, this makes total adj
tition to the circulating medium of
over $40, 600, 600 in little more than a
year The prospects are that before
the end of the year further addition
of from $4,000, 600 to $4,000, 600 will
be made to the gold in the country.
The New York EUentng Post be-
Heves that these facts ought to dis
pei all apprehension as to an impend-
ing money famine in the United
States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

THE late rains have added millions
to the wealth of the farmers and stock
raisers i'll the West and Northwe {.
Tho brown and apparently dead past
mres are now covered with luxuriant
grass, which will start stock into the
winter months in excellent condition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Political Methods Denounced.

MEcHAN1csBUBG, o., Sept. 6.-The Lay
Electoral Conference of the NJ E. church,
recently in session here, passed resolutions
denouncing the election methods of certain
delegates to conferences as a growing evil,
and giving instruction that no votes be cast
for candidates for conference or other
offices who are guilty of the questionable
rractices
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Mistress

Indignant Mistress = Bridget,
what do you mean by serving such wa
ter for breakfast? It's not ice water.
New Servant (who was recommended
as being of a saving turn)-"Sur'n It's
ice wather, mum, and its myself was
afther savin' it from last noight's sup
per. not wantin' fur to waste so much,
mum, and then the dice companies
chargin' such Robin like prices. -
ElmarG Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

J. GILLIAN MCDIARMID, who claims to
on tho oldest living printer and news
paper writer in the United States, F"
lives in Healdsburg, Sonoma County,
Gal. He was born in Edinburgh in
lI92' was apprenticed to printing
firm when he was fourteen years old,
came to this country in 1886, worked ON
various papers in New York and
Cincinnati until 1878, when he went to
California, where, until a year ago, he
use<l to write for the press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

JOHN STILLMAN, who was conductor
of the fatal train at Chatswort Ill.,,
went into the wreck weighing 1914
pounds. He now weighs Isl pounds.
He is unable to eat heartily, and has
not known night Of restfrl slumber
since the accident. When he docs
sleep his slumbers are broken by Wis
ions of the wreck, and in imagination
he hears the terrible cries of the
wounded and dying til he wakes,
more worn and restless than before.
lie is now taking an unlimited vaca-
ton at the expense of the road 1t is
doubtful if he ever fully RECEIVERS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Nearly Half the Residents in LockpOrt,
Pa, Sick with Black Diphtheria -Thir-
teen Deaths in Five Days.

PITTsBURGH, Pa, Sept 3.-An epidemic of
black diplItfseria is raging at Locxport, Pa,
aesuall town of 200 inhabitants, situated
or the Pennsylvania railroad, about sixty
miles east of this city. Nearly
half the population are reported
down with the disease, and thirteen deaths
have occurred within the past five days.
Recently an old viaduct which formed a
part of the State canal, was destroyed by
dynamite at that point, leaving stagnant
pools of water, which it is believed caused
the epidemic The victims are seized with
black vomit and usually die IN two or three
days
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

STILT-WALKING has become a popu-
lar sport in England, and has It's cham
pion, who reached London the other
day. having walked from Dundee,
nearly five hundred miles, in twenty
eigfttand one-half DAYS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

1T is related of President FELTON,, of
Harvard University, whose deficiency
in the spelling of English was known,
that, going into the University Press
to revise some proof~sheets, he could
not help noticing the many changes
made from the photography of his
manuscript in the printed matter
Though somewhat taken aback, he did
not lose-he never did-his good nat
IRE; but looking up to group of COM
positors he said: Never mind, young
men, may be lacking in the vernac-
ular, but ah, Ihave the advantage over
you in Greek"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

The oldest General of the United
States Army is William Selby Harvey,
Lie was born near Nashville, Tenn, in
1900 and entered the army in 1918.
de was breveted Major General ON
March IS, 1863
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
Fire Losses.

New York, Sept. 6-The Daily Commercial
Bulletins fire record for August shows to-
tai loss in the United States and Canada of
SIS, 317, 800, against $4,000, 900 in August,
1886. The average August losses for ten
years have been about $7,000,000 The
total losses for the frDt eight months of
1887 are $50, 245, 600, against SIC, 900, 900
for the corresponding neriod of 1895
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
HELD FOR MANsLAUeHTER.
General Manager HicksOn, of the Crane
Trunk Road, Indicted.

GenefaI Manager ItlcksOIlJ OF LIIe UTdIu
Trunk Road, Indicted.
MONTREAL, Can. Sept 3.-Joseph Hick-
son, general manager of the Grand Trunk
railway, was indicted for manslaughter
yesterday, because of the killing of two
men by train on a level crossing.
The action of the Grand jury in the
case has caused sensation. A conviction
is not expected, but the Indictment, never
theless, is expected to have wholesome
effect The recklessness Of the railroad
companies has recently caused the loss of
many lives in this city
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

ENGLAND is said to have one cow to
eight and half persons, France one
COW to three ard onc-third, and
America one cow to ono and two
thirds persons. America is ahead on
the COW
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
REAR-ADMIRAL FRANKIInt

REAR-ADmRAL FRANHLIN, recently
retired, entered the navy in 1841 and
took part in the demonstration against
Monterey during the Mexican war.
lie was on BOARD the Roanoke
when the Marrilnac destroyed the
Cumberland ana Congress. He was
executive oilic9f of the Dacotah in the
action against Sowal's Point. He
acted as laval representative in the
demand. for the surrender of Mobile.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

The prides of the Philadelphia zoo
are gazelle that drinks coffee and
snake that asks for only one square
meal atyear, which saves the attend
ants heaps of trouble and the zoo treas
ury much money. Boston Transcript
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

Mrs. DR. ELLIa an American lady,
IS physician tP the Queen OF Corea.
ohe has apartHGnts IN the royal palace
at Seoul, and Receives an annual salary
of $4,000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

JULIA MITCHELL, colored woman
OF Cdemphis, has been slowly turning
white since 1855, and now, except in
spots her color is us clear white as
the most favored member of the eau
cas- an race.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

SAMUEL SHOCK, president of the Co
lambia> (Pa.) National Bank, is ninety
one Years cd and works as hard as any
@f his clerks. He was IL cashier as far
NlD k as 1899
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

VuC SOulIIllUgSC W p0
officers of tn e con-
gress. @For the high
office Of President Of
the congress-" he said;
@the committee unani-
m o u sly nominate to
you one widely known
as a scientific practi-
tiener, an able teacher
and medical author.
DR.. Ma th a il SIN t Il
ID avis, of Chicago. +"
DIR. Davis having been
elected. by acclama-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

The New York Central & Hudson
RiTer Railroad Company expects to
have all the cars for local passenger
arains heated by steam next winter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

.fENRY WARD BEEcHER's homestead
a Brooklyn has been leased, and is
now decorated with the unpoetic
legcnd Furnished Rooms to Let"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

JUSTICE FIELD, of the United States
supreme, Court thinks the division of
Califol" 1ia into two States is certain to
occur before lone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09

WITH al the promises of "a short
corn crop" it s now estima ell that it
will reach !, 100 600. 600 bushels.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
y. ~. KILLEEN.


1HE use of the word ''butterine" has
been legally forbild, EN- in England. 1t
Must be called ''m ,argarine."